Cheshire is wider and older than Chester, and the work changes accordingly. The black-and-white timber-and-render stock around Tarporley, Tattenhall and Bunbury usually carries hand-made clay pantile or Welsh slate set on heavy oak rafters. Listed-building constraints sit on a lot of these properties: for materials, for scaffold detail, sometimes for the time of year work can be done. We have handled Cheshire West and Chester planning conditions and Cheshire East planning conditions enough times to know where the gates are.
Crewe, Northwich and Macclesfield run on a different stock: rail-town Victorian terrace in Crewe, mill-town tile in Macclesfield, and a mix of mid-century and modern detached around Knutsford and Wilmslow. Estates around Frodsham and Helsby sit on exposed elevation up against the Mersey marshes, where prevailing wind drives leak risk into the verges and the chimney flashings well before the field tiles. Ellesmere Port and Runcorn are heavier on flat-roof work: a lot of mid-century commercial-and-residential mix, plus 1970s estate stock with low-pitch concrete that is at end-of-life and going across to EPDM rubber as a one-day strip-and-recover where the deck is sound.
Across Cheshire our standard residential job runs five to seven working days. The Chester Team covers the county on 01244 879719.